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apollo (formerly, "royal scot man"; often misspelled "royal scotman", "royal scotsman") • ardith hilliard • arthur j. maren • bette orsini • church of scientology of california (csc) • cost • e-meter • former bank of clearwater building @ 500 cleveland street clearwater fl united states • fort harrison hotel (also, flag land base) @ 210 south fort harrison avenue clearwater fl united states • gabriel "gabe" cazares • internal revenue service (irs) • john brodie • lawsuit • legal • mary sue (whipp) hubbard • membership • office of special affairs (osa) (formerly, guardian's office) • operation snow white • real estate • robert "bob" snyder • sea organization (sea org, so) • sorrel (sorel?) allen • southern land development and leasing corporation (sldlc) • tax matter • united churches of florida
30 matching items found between Jan 1975 and Dec 1979. Furthermore, there are 484 matching items for all time not shown.
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Dec 14, 1979
Scientologists may give in, pay back taxes today — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 7, 1979
Commission plans action against Scientologists — Clearwater Times (Florida)
Nov 28, 1979
Clearwater official favors joint suit on Scientology tax status — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 27, 1979
Scientologists infiltrated Forbes magazine — Los Angeles Times (California)
Nov 7, 1979
Sect front started to launder cash — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
WASHINGTON — United Churches of Florida, the Scientology front group established in Clearwater in November 1975, was designed to be a tax shelter that could launder sect revenue nationwide, top-secret Scientology documents show. Sect founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote in September 1975 that United Churches was being created "to preserve the assets of Scientology . . . in case of a total wipeout of the Church of Scientology by IRS." The secret correspondence between Hubbard and highest-level Scientology "Guardians" show that ...
Nov 4, 1979
Memo: Scientologists aimed attack at local man — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan Gutwein-Guenther, Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
CLEARWATER — A two-page policy memo written by four top Church of Scientology officials apparently singled out for attack a former vice president of a local bank, according to documents released last week by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. The memo, included among the documents, cites Wilby F. Anderson of Buttonwood Court as an "enemy," apparently because of a speech Anderson made before the city commission in 1975. Anderson, who at one time worked in the U.S. Department of Justice, ...
Nov 4, 1979
Years with sect span tax battles, infiltrations and acquisitions [incomplete] — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
The following is a chronology of local events from the Scientologists 1975 purchase of the former Fort Harrison hotel to last week's release of church documents by a federal judge in Washington, D.C. 1975 Oct. 27 — Fort Harrison officials acknowledge sale of the hotel, saying the Jack Tar chain will cease operations on Nov. 30. The buyer is Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. Nov. 5 — Citizens learn Southern Land has agreed to buy another downtown landmark, the old ...
Nov 3, 1979
Scientologists find few sympathizers after latest revelations — Clearwater Times (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan Gutwein-Guenther
Source: Clearwater Times (Florida)
CLEARWATER — Residents Friday denounced the Church of Scientology after documents released by a federal judge a day earlier showed the cult wanted to "take control" of Clearwater. Many of the residents interviewed were not familiar with details of the case, but most expressed a strong hostility toward church members. "l only know that I don’t believe a dam thing they say," said W. B. McFalls, asked his opinion as he shopped at a local supermarket. "lf you want to know ...
Nov 3, 1979
Scientologists plot city takeover — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Richard Leiby
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
WASHINGTON — The Church of Scientology of California had big plans for the unsuspecting community of Clearwater when it arrived there in November 1975. In essence, the sect wanted to control the city's politicians, media and religious groups. To that end, the Scientologists have evidently failed. Hardly any Clearwater resident is not skeptical of the sect’s proclaimed goals and "reforrn" activities. Nevertheless, the church has purchased $8 million in Clearwater buildings and land and continues to work for the potential to ...
Mar 25, 1979
Beware the vicious and aggressive cults — The Baltimore Sun (Maryland)
Aug 28, 1978
'Fair Game' policy // Scientology critics assail belligerence — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Rawitch, Robert Gillette
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
"If anyone is getting industrious trying to enturbulate (sic) or stop Scientology or its activities, I can make Captain Bligh look like a Sunday-school teacher. There is probably no limit on what I would do to safeguard Man's only road to freedom against persons who . . . seek to stop Scientology or hurt Scientologists." — L. Ron Hubbard, Aug. 15, 1967 It was not the first time that private investigator Eual R. Harrow had interviewed jurors following a verdict, but ...
Aug 27, 1978
Scientology: A long trail of controversy — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert Gillette, Robert Rawitch
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
On May 14, 1951, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard wrote to the U.S. attorney general to plead for help in fending off a Communist conspiracy, dedicated, he averred, to destroying him. "When, when, when," he wrote, "will we have a roundup?" Rambling through seven single-spaced typewritten pages, the letter was, to all appearances, the heartfelt cry of a troubled man. A successful science fiction writer in the 1940s, L. Ron Hubbard, as he signed himself, had gone on to bigger things. ...
Feb 10, 1977
Scientology buys Cedars complex — Hollywood Independent
Aug 4, 1976
Scientology's Pinellas tax battle isn't the first — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Bette Orsini
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The controversial Church of Scientology's failure to gain tax-exempt status for $3-million worth of Pinellas County properties is only the latest chapter in a stormy history of legal battles over taxes. And the latest battle, which opened in the county courthouse last week, appears far from over. Scientology spokesmen vow to take their Pinellas tax case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. Pinellas officials, for their part, are just as determined to defend their denial of tax-exempt status for the ...
Jul 31, 1976
Scientology plea for tax exemption is rejected — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com
Apr 5, 1976
A Sci-Fi Faith — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
Source: TIME Magazine
The mystery began to unfold last fall in sleepy, sun-drenched Clearwater, Fla. The Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. decided to buy the 270-room Fort Harrison Hotel, a downtown landmark, and a nearby bank building. Southern Land stated that the hotel would stay open, but another spokesman announced that it would become a center for the United Churches of Florida, a new ecumenical outfit that soon won endorsement from twelve local clergymen. When 200 tight-lipped strangers moved into the hotel, rumors ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 25, 1976
Same-day resale of Fort Harrison hotel disclosed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Mar 22, 1976
Man of many parts to reside here — Cork Examiner (Ireland)
Mar 20, 1976
Celebrities testify for Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Mar 20, 1976
Scientology yacht Apollo up for sale — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
The Church of Scientology has announced it is selling its 3,287-ton yacht Apollo, the sometime home of founder L. Ron Hubbard and the mobile site of the worldwide sect's highlevel leadership training. [...]
Jan 29, 1976
Church of Scientology says it is real buyer of Fort Harrison / Controversial sect founder helped set up the financing — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
Church of Scientology surfaces as Fort Harrison Hotel owner — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
Editorial: Why so secretive? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 5, 1975
Fort Harrison buyer eyes Dunedin condo — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 3, 1975
Fort Harrison Hotel sale is official — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s): Susan Denley
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
It's official: the Fort Harrison Hotel has a new owner. And the price that new owner paid, until now a well-guarded secret, was $2.3-million according to documents filed in the Pinellas County courthouse Tuesday morning. Speculation about the price has gone on in Clearwater business circles since Jack Tar Hotels Inc. announced in late October that it was selling the landmark on Ft. Harrison Avenue to Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. of Jamaica, N.Y. Guesses have ranged from more than ...
Nov 22, 1975
Old Clearwater Bank building sale complete — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 5, 1975
Fort Harrison purchasers to buy Clearwater bank building — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Chuck Albury
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp., which is buying the Fort Harrison Hotel for use as a vacation and conference center for religious groups, signed an agreement Tuesday to buy the old Bank of Clearwater building on Cleveland Street and bank-owned office space with about 200 feet of frontage on N Ft. Harrison Avenue. ALTHOUGH individuals from Southern Land wouldn't comment officially on the purchase, they indicated that the space will be used for offices in connection with the hotel venture. ...
Oct 29, 1975
Closing of hotel started — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Oct 28, 1975
Fort Harrison Hotel bought; new owner plan to close it — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
The Fort Harrison Hotel, a downtown Clearwater landmark for a half century, has been sold and the new owners plan to close it — at least temporarily in December. Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp., a Delaware corporation, bought the hotel from Jack Tar Hotels Inc. of Dallas, Tex. The Jack Tar chain has owned the Fort Harrison since 1953 except for 14 months in 1969-70 when it was the property of Osias Hotels Inc. The new owners plan an announcement ...
Jul 6, 1975
Stamped with the Waddy Wood architectural personality — Washington Post
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Sarah Booth Conroy
Source: Washington Post
[...] Many of the houses were more modest. He designed several groups of row houses. The 1810-1820 19th St. NW are handsome houses with red tile roofs, Flemish gables, baroque stone work, bay windows, lights courts and cream-colored brick with the trim originally sage green. According to Eig and Bryan, the six are now used variously as offices of the Founding Church of Scientology, a halfway house, and multi-family homes. [...]
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